biography
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Hughes, Robert (Studley Forrest)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Art critic and writer, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at the University of Sydney, decided to become an art critic rather than an artist, and was art critic of the Sydney Observer (1958–9) and Nation (1960–4). Since 1970 he has been senior art critic for Time magazine. He was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinguished Art Criticism in 1982 and 1985. He has written many important books on a wide range of subjects, including The Art of Australia (1966) and The Shock of the New (1980) - a guide to 20th-c art based on the BBC television series. Later works include The Fatal Shore (1987), a history of convict transportation to Australia, The Culture Complaint (1993), a polemical discussion about ‘political correctness’ in the USA, and the television series American Visions (1996, published 1997), a history of American art. His Nothing if not Critical (1999) contains essays on art and artists. |
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